Standard 5

Managerial Leadership
A Managerial Leader creates and implements procedures and expectations for a safe and fiscally sound environment. They allow a place for open, two-way communication, and can effectively help to resolve conflicts among staff, students, parents and community members. Decisions made on fiscal matters are based on how it promotes and follows the shared vision and goals established and agreed upon all stakeholders, and how it will help improve student achievement and improved instruction.

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5a. School Resources and Budget: The school executive establishes budget processes and systems, which are focused on, and result, in improved student achievement.

Artifacts:

Grant Budget written for Community Internship


Remediation Plan with Budget:
Plan was written after I assisted in cleaning out rooms and closets and then inventoried what we found to decide what would still need to be purchased.


2013-2014 School Budget:
I attended several budget sessions with my principal. These included a beginning of year meeting with finance staff from central office and a meeting with the chief financial officer to discuss the accounts in the budget for the 2013-21014 school year. I also worked on reading through materials and creating budget for new school year.

Mock Budget for Class:

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5b. Conflict Management and Resolution: The school executive effectively and efficiently manages the complexity of human interaction so that the focus of the school can be on improved student achievement.

Artifacts:

Summary of Meeting:
I was responsible for conducting a meeting between an Instructional assistant and teachers that gave the assistant some unsatisfactory ratings for her mid year evaluation. We discussed the issues and concerns and created a plan of action.


Parent Meetings:
I observed, as well as facilitated meetings that were upset because of actions of teachers. My reflections of these meetings occurred with my principal mentor after the meetings, as well as with my coach and in weekly reflection logs.

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5c. Systematic Communication: The school executive designs and utilizes various forms of formal and informal communication so that the focus of the school can be on improved student achievement.

Artifacts:

ConnectEd Call:


Note sent to families addressing car drop-off and pick-up:


Reading Eggs Video:
Parent tutorial sent home with letter instructing parents how to access Readings Eggs, a reading program used in K-1st grade, at home.

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5d. School Expectation for Student and Staff: The school executive develops and enforces expectations, structures, rules and procedures for students and staff.

Artifacts:

Reading Eggs Email for Implementation:


Data Wall and Spreadsheet:
The instructional coach and I were responsible for helping to create and ensure teachers submitted spreadsheets on time every quarter. If they did not, we would follow up with teachers to ensure we had received the most updated and correct data.


Discipline:
I handled discipline data. When I received a referral, I ensured that teachers submitted their discipline folder on students. If tehy had not, I would collect it before I would address discipline. I then worked with the student and parent regarding the incident. I also followed up with teachers to create a plan if needed.

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Internship Activities:

• I attended the Edgecombe County Leadership Academy week at the beginning of the school year. During this week, a team from our school worked with other schools and district personnel in the district to review district data, as well as individual school data. We participated in a process to create a new vision and mission statement for the district. We also worked with our team to begin to create a Strategic Plan (SIT Plan) with SMART goals for our school based on a variety of data sources.
• I participated in the process of finalizing our Strategic Plan (SIT Plan) with the School Improvement Team. Part of the process included participating in a district review. We met with other schools and reviewed and edited each school's plan. I then attended the board meeting to present our plan to the school board. In the plan we identified resources needed to complete each strategy as well as a way they will be evaluated for effectiveness.
• Attended, participated and facilitated SIT meetings throughout the year. During the meetings I presented data, as well as participated in the discussions and decision making for the school with the team.
• I worked with our media coordinator to train our third grade teachers on SuccessMaker, a program the district adopted for remediation for our struggling students. We worked with the teachers to create a plan for implementation, including recreating a laptop checkout process, and a process for students to log in with limited licenses available. I created a video to assist teachers in logging in their students.
• I was responsible for the implementation of Reading Eggs, an online early literacy/reading program for our Kindergarten and first grade students. I uploaded the student sin the system, trained teachers on how to use, helped teachers create a process for logging students in, monitored usage and assisted with troubleshooting any problems with the program. The program is a resource listed in out Strategic Plan (SIP) to help use meet our Reading proficiency SMART goal.
• I assisted in updating the staff handbook.
• I worked with my principal and instructional coach to create a spreadsheet for teachers to record data from multiple sources into one sheet. These sheets are used during PLC’s to discuss student achievement. Teachers compare student preform among multiple programs to look for any alignment and/or misalignment. I worked with the Instructional coach to ensure all teachers turned in sheets and assisted in compiling and printing them for our principal.
• I had the responsibility of handling disciplines referrals. This included working with students, teachers and parents. I had to have conversations with all three parties and assisted in creating plans of action in an effort to prevent misbehaviors.
• I worked with the administrative team and the SIT to create a remediation plan for our students performing below grade level based on Read 3D data to help reach the SMART goals in our School Improvement Plan (SIP). I facilitated the remediation tutors, including assisting in the scheduling of groups, getting materials needed to teach the curriculum for remediation, and assisted in managing students enrolled and the communication between the tutors and teachers. I was also responsible for the budget for the plan.
• I completed 5-minute learning walks, informal observations, and formal evaluations throughout the school year for all grade levels. I provided feedback and conferenced with teachers. Part of these conversations included improvements that may need to be made in classroom management, culture and/or instructional practices.
• I created and distributed family letters home, as well as created ConnectEd (phone system) for parents.
• I created video tutorials for both staff and parents for programs we implemented throughout the year.
• I attended several budget sessions with my principal. These included a beginning of year meeting with finance staff from central office and a meeting with the chief financial officer to discuss the accounts in the budget for the 2013-21014 school year. I also worked on reading through and creating budget for new school year.
• I attended district trainings on EVASS, bullying, SuccessMaker, and PD360 and then meet with teachers to communicate district expectations and policies for use and implementation.
• I worked with my administrators and curriculum coach to clean out classrooms and storage rooms in an effort to compiled unused resources. I also assisted in inventorying new items sent from the district that had to be catalogued and distributed.

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Coursework/Trainings:

• Administrative Entry Plan: Created Plan for first 45 days at internship site. The plan include what I would do to oriente myself with the school culture, people and curriculum.
• Site Visits: A.B. Combs Elementary Leadership Magnet School, KIPP: Gaston Preparatory School, and East Garner Magnet Middle School
• Turn Around Schools Site Visits: Hertford Middle School, Overhills High School and Beddingfield High School
• Senge: The 5th Discipline Presentation on Mental Models
• Presentation on Political Framework from Boleman and Deal's book,
• Attended the North Carolina Association of School Administrators (NCASA) Conference in March 2012.
• Attended the NCDPI Collaborative Conference for Student Achievement (CCSA) in March 2012.
• Case Study on 90/90/90 Schools
• Case Study on a comparison of two principal's approaches (rudimentary response versus accomplished response) from Washington Elementary PreK-6 Rural Elementary School
• Data Day: We received training and information from representatives from EVAAS, ACRE, Metametrics, and NCDPI assessment and accountability.
• Leading and Changing School Culture Course Fall 2012
• Facilitative Leadership
• Understanding by Design
• Schooling by Design
• Digital Storytelling
• School Justice and Equity with Lynda Tredway
• Crucial Conversations Training
• School Law Course
• Distinguished Leadership Practices (DLP) - change and transitions
• Teacher Evaluation Assignment: For this assignment, I video an evaluation cycle (pre- and post-conference) for two different teachers. I then had to create a written reflection, comparing the two, as well as reflecting on what went well and areas I feel I needed to improve, and provide suggestions for that improvement.
• Operation NELA- This involved role play assignments in which we provided feedback to teachers based on concerns by parents or through observations.
• During my community internship, I created a grant, which included a detailed budget for resources needed for the grant to succeed.
• We completed a budget course, which included studying the budget law, comparing different district allotments for different funds, school board policies for budgets, and writing a budget for a mock school.

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Readings:

• Nudge
• How to Win Friends Influence People
• Crucial Conversations
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• Leading with Inquiry and Action
• Leading In a Culture of Change
• Revisiting Professional Learning Communities At Work
• The 48 Laws of Power
• Working With and Evaluating Difficult Employees
• Reframing Organizations
• The Fifth Discipline Field Book
• TInkering Towards Utopia
• A Framework for Understanding Poverty
• Trust Matters
• What Great Principals Do Differently
• The Only Grant-Writing Book You'll Ever Need
• Grant Writing 101

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